New features in this release
- Details of all the major changes since 2.2.0 can be found in Release Notes 2.2.1.
- 2.2.1 is a very light release, basically a maintenance release, see below with one new exciting feature added. Plus we wanted to experiment with shorter release cycles.
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Waveform colorways
You can optionally change the colorway of the waveforms displayed in your project. The setting is per track and not per project so you can have multiple colorways in the same project as in the image below.
Four colorways are available with the color selection made from the dropdown menu in the track's Track Control Panel.
When we made the menu changes for 2.2.0 we introduced an entry into the File menu called "Save Other" which led to a sub-menu for exporting various audio formats.
Many users were confused by this change and found it hard to find find where they could export audio from. So for 2.2.1 we have changed that menu entry to be .
Bug Fixes
Release 2.21 is mainly a maintenance release as soon after the release of 2.2.0 we discovered some problematical bugs in Audacity running on macOS operating systems:
- Bug #1767 - Opening a second project from Mac's Finder produces a second inaccessible instance of Audacity
- Bug #1770 - Crash applying certain chain files
Plus this one that affected all platforms:
- Bug #1765 - Using to import audio gives wrong zoom level and no scroll bar slider
Additional new features
This page New features in this release - appendix gives an overview of further new functionality that has been introduced in this release of Audacity.
Links
> Audacity Release Notes 2.3.0 - detailed release notes for this release of Audacity
